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What Should You Do When It’s Flight Attendants Not Wearing Masks?

by Gary Leff on September 23, 2020

Sep 23 2020

This week a photo of a United Airlines flight attendant not wearing a mask went fairly viral, because airlines have been kicking two year old children off of planes for lack of masks. Surely the ones tasked with ensuring compliance should do so themselves.

What should a passenger do if a flight attendant isn’t wearing a mask? It’s reasonable to be both concerned for health, but also reticent to challenge flight crew out of fear of being removed from the aircraft or having law enforcement called.

Woman Melts Down When American Airlines Kicks Her Two Year Old Off For Not Wearing A Mask

by Gary Leff on September 21, 2020

Sep 21 2020

Rachel Starr Davis was fleeing a hurricane in Florida last week, connecting to American Airlines flight 5595 from Charlotte to Manchester, New Hampshire. Before pushback a flight attendant approached her and asked how old her son is.

The two year old boy wouldn’t wear a mask, despite in his mother’s words ‘begging, bribing, pleading’ but he screamed and cried as she “tried to hold him and put the mask on.”

Southwest Airlines Kicked A Two Year Old Off A Plane

by Gary Leff on September 14, 2020

Sep 14 2020

Last month Southwest kicked an autistic three year old off a flight for not wearing a mask. And then a week later JetBlue kicked a two year old off. Now Southwest has joined the two year old club, kicking a woman and her two year old son off a Fort Myers – Chicago flight on Saturday. The boy was “snacking prior to takeoff and wasn’t wearing his mask.”

Man Uses Can Of Pringles Chips To Avoid Mask Requirement On Four Hour Flight

by Gary Leff on September 8, 2020

Sep 08 2020

A passenger on an easyJet flight from Manchester to Tenerife used what some might call the Ted Cruz exception, milking a single food or beverage item for the full flight to take advantage of airline rules allowing passengers to go maskless while eating or drinking.

He says he doesn’t actually have an issue with masks, it was just an experiment to see if he could get away with it: he bought a can of Pringles potato chips on the flight, and spread 100 chips out across the length of the flight, making each chip last two and a half minutes.

Allegiant Air Removes ‘Disruptive’ Passenger Who Wanted Flight Attendant To Wear A Mask.

by Gary Leff on September 7, 2020

Sep 07 2020

Ironically, the airline says “[t]he passenger was removed for repeatedly disrupting the pre-flight safety briefing which includes reiteration of our inflight face-covering policy.”

Man Sang “Trump, Trump, Trump” Over And Over As He Got Kicked Off An American Airlines Flight

by Gary Leff on September 7, 2020

Sep 07 2020

A passenger on Saturday evening’s American Airlines AA883 from Phoenix to Chicago O’Hare delayed all of his fellow customers by an hour when he refused to wear a mask and was removed from the flight.

As he was escorted off the Boeing 737-800, the man sang to himself and anyone in the cabin inclined to listen, “Trump Trump Trump Trump, Trump Trump Trump.”

A Federal Mask Mandate For Airlines Is A Terrible Idea – Even Though Masks Are A Good Idea

by Gary Leff on August 24, 2020

Aug 24 2020

If you think that masks are a good idea then of course you think they should be mandated on airplanes by the federal government, right? Wrong. Airlines already mandate masks, so a federal rule would be duplicative – but likely weaker than what we have today, and tough to ever get rid of.

Former ‘Navy SEAL Who Shot bin Laden’ Digs Even Deeper With Attack On Delta For Requiring Masks

by Gary Leff on August 21, 2020

Aug 21 2020

Delta has confirmed banning Robert O’Neill, the Navy SEAL who was part of the raid at Abbottabad and claims credit for shooting Osama bin Laden, over his refusal to wear a mask inflight (and bragging about it on social media, putting down others who wore masks).

He’s expressed the opinion online that as a hero he should be exempt from rules – and, in a now-deleted tweet, offers this put-down of Delta for requiring masks in the first place,. Delta is acting more like the Naval Special Warfare Development Group than he even realized.

Delta Bans The Navy SEAL Who Killed bin Laden And Refuses To Wear A Mask

by Gary Leff on August 20, 2020

Aug 20 2020

Nine years, seven months, and 20 days after the September 11th attacks that took 2977 American lives, United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (“Seal Team Six”) executed Operation Neptune Spear, along with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and the CIA’s Special Activities Division, raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

During that raid, bin Laden was killed. Now, nearly a decade later, the member of the SEAL team on that raid who says he’s the one that pulled the trigger refuses to wear a mask on a Delta flight, posts to social media about it, and gets banned.

Two Year Old Kicked Off JetBlue Flight For Refusing To Wear A Mask

by Gary Leff on August 19, 2020

Aug 19 2020

JetBlue’s face mask policy says anyone who cannot wear a mask “should postpone travel until this temporary requirement is no longer in place.” And JetBlue has now enforced their policy against a two year old on a flight from Orlando to Newark.